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"We hypothesize that drinking leads to higher earnings by increasing social capital." The hypothesis seems to be that drinking makes people like you and that gets you better jobs. As opposed to being social getting you better jobs and mak
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Of course source code makes the game better or worse. The game is made of code. The code makes the game what it is. If you write good code, your product will work better and be done sooner. This is the definition of good code. If you write
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But what happens if you incorrectly predict that an abstraction will be needed? Then you made a mistake and hopefully learned something. I didn't say architecting software was easy or without risk, just that you can't avoid doing it by fo
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>> The abstraction is just barely enough to get the job done [...] > Or, in other words, the perfect amount... Well no, because the job doesn't end when it's "done". Minecraft is the perfect example: In the earliest versions of
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They can't, so just throw some mathy teacher in there and hopefully the students will more or less teach themselves, and if you're really lucky, each other. That's how every high school CS class I've ever taken has worked. It's not ideal, b
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Sadly, they overlooked the detail that most people in Victorian England actually didn't know kung-fu.
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2b) It never lived, it was a "frozen corpse", and since you can make copies at will, just having a copy doesn't constitute a new life until it's run. How long does it have to run before it's alive? If the interval is short enough then the
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If the simulation decides to copy itself, and allows the copy to run independently, are there now two autonomous people? If the copy is allowed to advance one nanosecond and is then deleted, leaving the original running, has a murder been c
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In any sensible OO language (i.e. not C++) all method calls will be virtual, so there is always some sort of dynamic lookup involved.
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The "tools, not rules" programming meta-methodology: - Your own reasoning takes priority over any method or principle. - If you can't see how a method is concretely helpful, you shouldn't follow it. The need for it will soon become apparent
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If there's currently no market, then nobody has anything to lose by letting Google try to create one. The iPad is already pushing them out of the picture, but if the iPad didn't exist then there would be no picture out of which to be pushed
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Minecraft has opened the creative floodgates of giant-voxel-based games. We will see many inspired titles like this as we rediscover the wonders of tiles .
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Why did the film adaptation of Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH into The Secret of NIMH rewrite the end plot with that stupid mystical jewel-locket-thing? They pretty much rewrote the entire premise of the book. It was originally about l
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Why would str2=str create a new string? How are RStrings modified when they are referenced by other shared RStrings? Is there any way to create a shared RString other than calling .dup?
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What was wrong with the MS brand for gaming when Xbox came out? Their OS was practically the exclusive platform for computer games at the time, and that was all they had to do with gaming, so they were neutral at worst.
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profit = paying users * price per user - total users * expense per user - overhead expenses Business on the internet seems to be much more about driving up total users while driving down expense per user, rather than driving up paying users
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What's clear about that? Don't assume that these businesses can accurately measure how effective their street advertising is.
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Rather than whitelisting specific advertisers, why not come up with some acceptably non-annoying ad templates and tell the filter to let through things that match the template? Advertisers can just fill in the template and they'll know thei
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You could store the map in strings representing, say, 16x16 tiles each. You'll have to replace the entire string when a tile changes, but that shouldn't be a big deal if they are only 256 chars. And you might be able to pack multiple tiles
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As a player, I don't want to see existing joystick games ported to iOS. I can already play those games in their existing form, and the virtual joystick experience, for all the thought that has been put into it, still sucks. What I want to s
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That's impressive, but it crashes Safari on my 1st gen iPad, probably from memory use. How is the map stored? An object per tile?
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Yep. And in the case of Battlezone, a game that is about its appearance, I would argue that the expression can't be separated from the abstract idea. But I doubt we'll ever see a court's opinion on that.
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The Munchkin case was a travesty. It had significant differences from Pac-Man, both cosmetic and functional. By the same standard, almost all current video games would be illegal, as would most works in any creative medium that fell into an
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Atari abuses copyright to kick competitors out of the iOS app store(kickstarter.com)
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I propose one of the accurate terms that were already in common use, like "AJAX app" or "single-page app". But terms like these are constantly being replaced, to the great bewilderment of the client/lay person, in order to give the illusion
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"HTML" or "web app" are equally convenient labels without the pretense.
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It's an overloaded umbrella term, largely for things that have existed for a long time, which inflates expectations for change.
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Meanwhile, the whole sync mechanism of Dropbox doesn't really matter for a "filesystem of the web", because changes can just occur directly in the remote filesystem rather than locally with syncing Excel can't make changes directly to the
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There's no need to half-ass the test, you should be able to get the actual significance at any point in the experiment. The software just has to correctly calculate the conditional probability of significance.
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Any idea why it splits up the PIN like that? It costs $100 just to download the spec.

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